Dataset
Age dependency breakdown
owid.age-dependency-breakdown
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About
Number of people aged 65 and over per 100 working-age people (aged 15 to 64). Number of children under 15 per 100 working-age people (aged 15 to 64).
Cite as: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “Old-age dependency ratio – UN WPP” [dataset]. United Nations, “World Population Prospects”; United Nations, “World Population Prospects – Interim Update” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1950–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2024-07-12
- Units
- %
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-dependency-breakdown
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| dependency_ratio__sex_all__age_old__variant_estimates | number | Old-age dependency ratio (%) |
| dependency_ratio__sex_all__age_youth__variant_estimates | number | Youth dependency ratio (%) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |